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Monday, 18 November 2013

MAVEN LAUNCH VIDEO

MAVEN is the first space craft designed exclusively for exploring
the upper atmosphere. It was successfully launched aboard a United Launch
Alliance Atlas V rocket from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch
Complex 41, Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 1:28 p.m. EST on Monday, Nov.
18, 2013.

The goal of MAVEN is to determine the history of the loss of
atmospheric gases to space, providing answers aboutMartian climate evolution.

The
MAVEN mission has four primary scientific objectives:

1. Determine
the role that loss of volatiles to space from the Mars atmosphere has played
through time.

2. Determine
the current state of the upper atmosphere, ionosphere, and interactions with
the solar wind.

3. Determine
the current rates of escape of neutral gases and ions to
space and the processes controlling them.